According to Gaudiya Vaishnavas, Brahma is the secondary creator and not the supreme.

According to Gaudiya Vaishnava theology Smriti statement, living entities ( bhuto ) are eternally in the service ( dasa ) of the Supreme Lord ( Hari ).

According to Gaudiya Vaishnava philosophy, consciousness is not a product of matter ( this is common for all spiritual traditions ), but is instead a symptom of the soul.

According to Gaudiya Vaishnava theology Smriti statement, living entities ( bhuto ) are eternally in the service ( dasa ) of the Supreme Lord ( Hari ).

According to Vaishnava belief Vishnu creates the basic universal shell and provides all the raw materials and also places the living entities within the material world, fulfilling their own independent will.

According to his official biographers, he continued his sadhana under teachers of Tantra, Vedanta and Vaishnava.

According to Hindu Vaishnava theology the stories concerning the gopis are said to exemplify Suddha-bhakti which is described as ' the highest form of unconditional love for God ' ( Krishna ).

According to Sri Vaishnava philosophy it is considered to be one of the Divya desam ( 108 in total ) or holy places of worship of Lord Vishnu praised by Alwars in a compilation called the Nalayira Divya Prabandha.

According to Bruce L. Olsen, director of public affairs for the church, " The logo re-emphasizes the official name of the church and the central position of the Savior in its theology.

According to Cyril's theology, there were two states for the Son: the state that existed prior to the Son ( or Word / Logos ) becoming enfleshed in the person of Jesus and the state that actually became enfleshed.

According to the theology of the Deuteronomists the terms of the treaty with Yahweh were that he would preserve both the city and the king in return for their worship and obedience to the law-code.

According to Kallistos Ware, some Western theologians, both Roman Catholic and Anglican, see the theology of Palamas as introducing an inadmissible division within God ; however, others have incorporated his theology into their own thinking, maintaining, as Jeffrey D. Finch reports, that there is no conflict between his teaching and Roman Catholic thought.

According to Covenant theology God makes two basic covenants, or agreements, with humans.

According to Jerome, he was the first Christian author to write about theology in Latin.

According to classical theology it is possible for Christ to suffer only in virtue of his human nature.

According to a socio-political study of liberation theology in Latin America, twenty-five per cent of the final Puebla documents were written by theologians who were not invited to the conference.

According to Augustine, Varro drew on the pontiff Mucius Scaevola's tripartite theology:

According to Orthodox theology, when asceticism is increased, prayer must be increased also.

According to the later hagiographical literature, Theodore received an education befitting his family's station, and from the age of seven was instructed by a private tutor, eventually concentrating in particular on theology.

According to Catholic theology man has not lost his natural faculties: by the sin of Adam he has been deprived only of the Divine gifts to which his nature had no strict right: the complete mastery of his passions, exemption from death, sanctifying grace, and the vision of God in the next life.

According to Saiva Siddhanta, which was for many centuries the dominant school of Shaiva theology and liturgy across the Indian subcontinent ( and beyond it in Cambodia ), the linga is the ideal substrate in which the worshipper should install and worship the five-faced and ten-armed Sadāśiva, the form of Shiva who is the focal divinity of that school of Shaivism.

According to a view that has featured prominently in Western theology since early in the 2nd millennium, God's justice required an atonement for sin from humanity if human beings were to be restored to their place in creation and saved from damnation.

According to some scholars like Parrinder, Oduyoye, Vroom and Sheth, the common translation " incarnation " due to its christological implications is somewhat misleading as the concept of avatar corresponds more closely to the view of Docetism in Christian theology, as different from the idea of God ' in the flesh ' in mainstream Christology.

According to the Chronicle of Fredegar, Recared, King of the Wisigoths ( reigned 586 – 601 ) and first Catholic king of Spain, following his conversion to Catholicism in 587, ordered that all Arian books should be collected and burned ; and all the books of Arian theology were reduced to ashes, with the house in which they had been purposely collected.

According to Bernard Lewis, there is nothing in Muslim theology ( with a single exception ) that can be considered refutations of Judaism or ferocious anti-Jewish diatribes.

According to tradition, theology students in Halle put stones on his grave as a token of respect every year before their examinations.

According to Evangelical theologian Charles C. Ryrie, modern liberal theology " gives an exaggerated place to the abilities of man to decide his own fate and to effect his own salvation entirely apart from God's grace.

According to Reformed theology, the " good news " of the gospel of Christ is that God has freely granted the gift of salvation to those the Holy Spirit causes to believe ; what He freely grants to some ( the " elect " individuals ), however, He also withholds from others ( the " reprobate " individuals ).

According to the Qur ' an, Tawhid, meaning literally unification or asserting the oneness of Allah ( to be the only God who deserves to be worshiped in truth and confirming all attributes with which He has qualified Himself or that are attributed to Him by His Messenger ), can be categorised into three tenets of theology ; Tawhid al Rubu ` biya, Tawhid al ` Uluhiyya and Tawheed-al-Asma was-Sifaat.

According to Schopenhauer, Kant's original philosophy, with its refutation of all speculative theology, had been transformed by the German Idealists.

According to Christian theology, the transcendent God, who cannot be approached or seen in essence or being, becomes immanent primarily in the God-man Jesus the Christ, who is the incarnate Second Person of the Trinity.

" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

According to Heraclitus, worldly pleasures made the soul " moist ", and he considered mastering one's worldly desires to be a noble pursuit which purified the soul's fire.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

Some, including Sheldon Glashow, speculate that Witten chose the letter because it resembles an inverted W. According to Witten, " M can stand variously for ' magic ', ' mystery ', or ' matrix ', according to one's taste.

According to Peikoff, one can be certain of a proposition if all of the available evidence supports it, i. e., it can be logically integrated with the rest of one's knowledge ; one is then certain within the context of the evidence.

" According to Rand, therefore, possessing free will, human beings must choose their values: one does not automatically hold one's own life as his ultimate value.

According to Adam Smith, the expectation of profit from " improving one's stock of capital " rests on private property rights.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning " of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons, one's own ;" hence the council is personal to the sovereign.

According to The Chess Variant Pages &# x200A ;: Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its ' drop rule '; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.

According to special relativity, one can change a spatial and time separation ( L < sub > 1 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 1 </ sub >) into another ( L < sub > 2 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 2 </ sub >) by changing one's reference frame, as long as the change maintains the spacetime interval s. Such a change in reference frame corresponds to changing one's motion ; in a moving frame, lengths and times are different from their counterparts in a stationary reference frame.

According to Wesleyan understanding, good works were the fruit of one's salvation, not the way in which that salvation was earned.

According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason.

According to author John Leland, the object of the game is to stupefy and daze one's opponents with swift and skillful speech.

According to the theory, accommodation is the process of reframing one's mental representation of the external world to fit new experiences.

According to Ayurvedic medicine, sago porridge can be an effective and simple food to " cool and balance one's body heat " when taking strong medicine or antibiotics.

According to Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers -- The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, Halliburton's message to seek one's destiny abroad, and to embrace romantic enterprises, drew its chief inspiration, as did the new cult of youth emerging after World War I, from poet Rupert Brooke.

According to Jains, one's highest goal should be moksha ( i. e., liberation from samsara, the cycle of birth and rebirth ).

According to these doctrines bodhi is always there within one's mind, but requires the defilements to be removed.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, " self-love " is " the instinct or desire to promote one's well-being "; while La Rochefoucauld considered ' that amour-propre ( self-regard ) is the mainspring of all human activities '.

According to Confucian moral standards, loyalty to one's family, friends, and superiors are important measures for distinguishing good and bad people.

According to Christians, acts of repentance do not earn God's forgiveness from one's sin ; rather, forgiveness is given as a gift from God to those whom he saves.